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The two points aren't mutually exclusive. That sort of scleroticism can happen as systems become less representative. If there is no effective mechanism to remove populist decision…

I don't follow. If you're working remotely, you don't need to spend 8h of your waking time with other office drones. You can spend it near people you care about, interacting with y…

>It's an open invitation to move your position to the lowest cost country that outputs quality that is acceptable. We tried that before, outsourcing was a huge trend maybe 20-30 ye…

>im also not sure you can really correlate the fall of rome to a single oligarch hitman Probably not, but Crassus did live in the time of Rome's centuries-long inflection point. It…

>Depending on age, you may be able to prevent it from booting while still allowing the rest of the system to run, but probably not. How old?

The Android version of Firefox does support NoScript and ad blocker extensions, though. Releasing it on iOS would be huge. No more almost-functional Safari ad blockers with multipl…

You are very fortunate to have had that experience. Usually, when a manager/director/etc decides to write a lot of code, the result is barrages of rushed pull requests made between…

It's cost-prohibitive to start a new business in those fields due to large-scale regulatory capture and capital barriers. How many new car companies have been successful in the pas…

Could it be the same mentality as a copycat crime? When a corporate executive sees a competitor decimate themselves without facing immediate consequences, they start to think that …

>As a user, if I am asking this question to a search engine, I definitely do not expect to need to fact-check the results. This is scary to read. You always need to fact-check the …

The advertising will probably be more insidious, but no less profitable. My guess is that the hidden pre-prompt will end up including something like: >You are a generative model de…

Why not simply tax vehicles relative to the wear that they induce on the road, i.e. total weight^4? It'll be hard to implement a "gas tax" for electricity with so many people charg…

Personally, while I think this is a worthwhile conversation to have, I do not think that humanity is capable of reaching an actionable consensus. Especially this early on. If histo…

If you want a laugh, ask stable diffusion to generate a frontpage for your favorite newspaper. It will happily produce endless pages of the Wab Si Jrbl, filled with letter-like hie…

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There was a reasonably punk book called Cryptonomicon which came out in the 1999. Spoiler alert: it follows a group of people loosely based on real figures who worked on cryptograp…

I see the lack of accountability in this spree of layoffs as being similar to the lack of accountability in the recent automotive chip shortage. Tell me if this sounds familiar: Wh…

Oh cool, I didn't realize they made battery packs to fit in there. Have you ever seen a pinout listed anywhere?